Podcast appearances and mentions of Azar Nafisi

Bookwaves/Artwaves is produced and hosted by Richard Wolinsky. Links to assorted local theater & book venues   Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025): Legendary Berkeley Publisher Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025), the long-time publisher of Heyday Books in Berkeley, who died on August 20, 2025 at the age of 84, in conversation with Richard Wolinsky in the KPFA Studios on November 21, 2014. Malcolm Margolin founded Heyday Books, the renownedy non-profit publishing house located in Berkeley, in 1974 and stayed until he retired in 2015. He was the author and editor of several books, most notably The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco – Monterey Bay Area, along with magazines and other periodicals. This interview was recorded November 21, 2014 upon the publication of his memoir/history, The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin: The Damned Good Times of a Fiercely Independent Publisher.  Malcolm Margolin retired in 2015 but continued to work until his death. His final book, Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California. was published by Heyday in 2021.   Azar Nafisi: Best-selling Author of “Reading Lolita in Tehran” Azar Nafisi,author of the best-selling memoir, “Reading Lolita in Tehran,”  in conversation with host Richard Wolinsky, recorded in the KPFA studios on January 12, 2009 while on tour for the memoir, “Things I've Been Silent About.” Azar Nafisi burst on the literary scene in 2003 with her memoir, Reading Lolita in Tehran in 2003, which remained on the New York Times best seller list for 117 weeks. Born in Tehran, Iran, she came to the United States in 1997 and became an American citizen in 2008. A professor of literature, she'd previously written a critical study of the works of Vladimir Nabokov. There would be a second interview with Azar Nafisi  in 2015 for her book about the importance of literature, The Republic of the Imagination. 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Azar Nafisis Buch "Lolita lesen in Teheran" wurde zum internationalen Bestseller - und ist nun verfilmt worden.

durée : 00:42:45 - Signes des temps - par : Marc Weitzmann - "Lire Lolita à Téhéran" raconte comment des femmes ont résisté par la littérature au régime des mollahs entre les années 80 et 90. Comme le livre de Azar Nafisi dont il est tiré, le film sorti cette semaine offre une méditation sur les pouvoirs de l'imaginaire face à l'autoritarisme ou qu'il soit. - réalisation : Luc-Jean Reynaud - invités : Mina Kavani comédienne et autrice; Bahareh Akrami Dessinatrice. ; Lila Azam Zanganeh Ecrivain et journaliste

Nos invitées sont deux actrices qui ont quitté l'Iran mais que l'Iran n'a jamais quittées. Forcées à l'exil il y a 17 ans, elles n'ont jamais pu revenir dans leur pays mais incarnent au cinéma deux figures de la résistance des femmes au régime théocratique et qui malgré la censure se réunissaient pour lire des livres interdits. Dans "Lire Lolita à Téhéran", en salle le 26 mars et adaptation du roman de Azar Nafisi en salles mercredi, Goldshifteh Farahani et Zar Amir incarnent deux femmes éprises de liberté qui bravent l'oppression dans l'IRAN des années 80.Tous les soirs, du lundi au vendredi à 20h sur France 5, Anne-Elisabeth Lemoine et toute son équipe accueillent les personnalités et artistes qui font l'actualité.

durée : 00:21:39 - L'interview de 9h20 - par : Léa Salamé - À 9h20, Léa Salamé reçoit Golshifteh Farahani pour le film “Lire Lolita à Téhéran” d'Eran Riklis en salles le 26 mars, d'après le roman autobiographique de Azar Nafisi. - invités : Golshifteh FARAHANI - Golshifteh Farahani : Actrice

durée : 00:21:39 - L'interview de 9h20 - par : Léa Salamé - À 9h20, Léa Salamé reçoit Golshifteh Farahani pour le film “Lire Lolita à Téhéran” d'Eran Riklis en salles le 26 mars, d'après le roman autobiographique de Azar Nafisi. - invités : Golshifteh FARAHANI - Golshifteh Farahani : Actrice

CINEMA! E ANCORA CINEMA! Nuovo appuntamento con la mia rubrica "improvvisata" in cui esprimo opinioni su film visti da pochi minuti al Cinema per ricordarvi che il CINEMA è AL CINEMA! Può la cultura o anche solo la letteratura salvare il mondo? Forse no ma può fare la differenza nella vita di tante persone. E' quello che ha raccontato Azar Nafisi nel suo libro "Leggere Lolita a Teheran", ora anche al cinema.

He's lived a rich life as a journalist, a human rights activist, an author, a columnist -- and now he's written a great book on Gujaratis. Salil Tripathi joins Amit Varma in episode 409 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss his life, his learnings, these times we live in -- and the times that came before. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Salil Tripathi on Twitter, Instagram, Wikipedia, LinkedIn and Amazon. 2. The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community -- Salil Tripathi. 3. The Colonel Who Would Not Repent -- Salil Tripathi. 4. Offence – The Hindu Case -- Salil Tripathi. 5. Detours: Songs of the Open Road -- Salil Tripathi. 6. For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit -- Edited by Shilpa Gupta and Salil Tripathi. 7. The Gita Press and Hindu Nationalism — Episode 139 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Akshaya Mukul). 8. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India — Akshaya Mukul. 9. Saraswatichandra (Gujarati) (English) -- Govardhanram Tripathi. 10. Gujarat Ni Asmita -- KM Munshi. 11. I Follow the Mahatma -- KM Munshi. 12. Devdutt Pattanaik and the Stories That Shape Us — Episode 404 of The Seen and the Unseen. 13. Ahimsa: 100 Reflections on the Harappan Civilization — Devdutt Pattanaik. 14. Until the Lions -- Karthika Nair. 15. Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity — Manu Pillai. 16. The Forces That Shaped Hinduism -- Episode 405 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manu Pillai). 17. Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain -- Fintan O'Toole. 18. Understanding Gandhi: Part 1: Mohandas — Episode 104 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 19. Understanding Gandhi: Part 2: Mahatma — Episode 105 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ram Guha). 20. Gandhi Before India -- Ramachandra Guha. 21. Objects From Our Past -- Episode 77 of Everything is Everything. 22. The Diary of Manu Gandhi (Part 1) (Part 2) -- Edited and Translated by Tridip Suhrud. 23. The Ferment of Our Founders — Episode 272 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Kapila). 24. Lessons from an Ankhon Dekhi Prime Minister — Amit Varma. 25. Akhil Katyal's poem on caste. 26. Midnight's Children -- Salman Rushdie. 27. Bare Feet – a Poem about MF Husain -- Salil Tripathi. 28. My Mother's Fault -- Salil Tripathi. 29. Jejuri -- Arun Kolatkar. 30. Yashwant Rao -- Arun Kolatkar. 31. The Patriot -- Nissim Ezekiel. 32. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne -- Satyajit Ray. 33. You're Missing -- Bruce Springsteen. 34. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Ved Mehta and John McPhee on Amazon. 35. All We Imagine as Light -- Payal Kapadia. 36. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha Is the Impartial Spectator — Episode 388 of The Seen and the Unseen. 37. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder. 38. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity — Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen. 39. Saving Capitalism From The Capitalists -- Raghuram Rajan and Luigi Zingales. 40. Check out Johan Norberg's great work. 41. The Life and Times of the Indian Economy — Episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta). 42. India's Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality — Amit Varma. 43. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs — Episode 46 of Everything is Everything. 44. On Inequality — Harry Frankfurt. 45. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis. 46. Sample SSR conspiracy theory: He's alive! 47. Amit Varma's 2022 piece on the mess-up at The Wire. 48. Television Price Controls — Episode 27 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ashok Malik). 49. The Selfish Altruist -- Tony Vaux. 50. Sadanand Dhume's tweet on the hypocrisy around The Satanic Verses. 51. Bad Elements -- Ian Buruma. 52. Biju Rao Won't Bow to Conventional Wisdom — Episode 392 of The Seen and the Unseen. 53. Can Economics Become More Reflexive? — Vijayendra Rao. 54. The Life and Times of Teesta Setalvad — Episode 302 of The Seen and the Unseen. 55. Aakar Patel Is Full of Hope — Episode 270 of The Seen and the Unseen. 56. The Wal-Mart Effect -- Charles Fishman. 57. Modern South India -- Rajmohan Gandhi. 58. The Adda at the End of the Universe — Episode 309 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vikram Sathaye and Roshan Abbas). 59. Whatever happened To Ehsan Jafri on February 28, 2002? — Harsh Mander. 60. Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat -- Narmad. 61. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything. 62. Where the Green Ants Dream -- Werner Herzog. 63. People's Linguistic Survey of India -- GN Devy and others. 64. The Refreshing Audacity of Vinay Singhal — Episode 291 of The Seen and the Unseen. 65. Stage.in. 66. Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Azar Nafisi. 67. Two Concepts of Liberty — Isaiah Berlin. 68. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything. 69. The First Assault on Our Constitution — Episode 194 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Tripurdaman Singh). 70. Shruti Rajagopalan's talk on the many amendments in our constitution. 71. Caged Tiger: How Too Much Government Is Holding Indians Back — Subhashish Bhadra. 72. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State — Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 73. Amitava Kumar Finds the Breath of Life — Episode 265 of The Seen and the Unseen. 74. Goodbye Solo — Ramin Bahrani. 75. The desire to help, and the desire not to be helped — Roger Ebert's review of Goodbye Solo. 76. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada -- Shahu Patole. 77. Firaaq -- Nandita Das. 78. How the BJP Wins — Prashant Jha. 79. The BJP's Magic Formula — Episode 45 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Prashant Jha). 80. The Year of Living Dangerously -- Peter Weir. 81. Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray, Francois Truffaut and Aparna Sen. 82. The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and London Review of Books. 83. Ravi Shankar, Zakir Hussain and Vilayat Khan on Spotify. 84. Nadine Gordiner, Fintan O'Toole, Ilya Kaminsky, Karthika Nair, Ruchir Joshi, Kiran Desai, Nilanjana Roy, Sunil Gavaskar and Mike Brearley. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new course called Life Lessons, which aims to be a launchpad towards learning essential life skills all of you need. For more details, and to sign up, click here. Amit and Ajay also bring out a weekly YouTube show, Everything is Everything. Have you watched it yet? You must! And have you read Amit's newsletter? Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Also check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘Asmita' by Simahina.

Susipažįstame su spaudos publikacijomis kultūros tema.Pasaulio kultūros įvykių apžvalga.Dovilės Kuzminskaitės pokalbis su iraniečių kilmės rašytoja Azar Nafisi, romano „Skaitant Lolitą Teherane“ autore.Literatūros agentas Benas Bėrantas neseniai lankėsi Busano vaikų knygų mugėje Pietų Korėjoje. Kokia Pietų Korėjiečių vaikų ir jaunimo literatūra?Šveicarijoje paskelbti 2024-ųjų Europos kino geriausieji. Kuo ypatingos laimėjusios kino juostos?Maironio lietuvių literatūros muziejuje šeštadienį vyko šventiniai poečių, prozininkių ir kitų žanrų rašytojų solidarumo skaitymai „Literačių vakaras“.Gitaristas Rokas Jurkus, artėjant 150- osios M.K.Čiurlionio gimimo metinėms ketina išleisti šio kūrėjo pjesių albumą, pirmą kartą įgrotą gitara.Domanto Razausko muzikinės naujienos.Ved. Marius Eidukonis

Antonella Cilento"Strane Coppie Festival"Diversi eventi si susseguiranno fino al 17 novembre, concentrati prevalentemente nei fine settimana.La formula consolidata di Strane coppie, che dà anche il nome alla manifestazione, prevede che due figure di spicco del mondo culturale e letterario italiano si confrontino su due grandi scrittori o scrittrici di tutto il mondo.Chiamati a confrontarsi sulle strane coppie quest'anno saranno Mario Fortunato e Anna Toscano su E.M. Forster e Carson McCullers; Enrico Terrinoni e Giuseppe Montesano su William Blake e Hermann Broch; Giuliana Misserville e Giorgio Amitrano su Angela Carter e Murakami Haruki; Marinella Mascia Galateria e Marta Barone su Paola Masino e Nikolaj Gogol'; Nicoletta Pesaro, José Vicente Quirante Rives e Giuseppe Montesano su Yu Hua, Sara Gallardo ed Elena Garro; infine Maria Attanasio e Marta Morazzoni su Gesualdo Bufalino e Azar Nafisi. Ma anche diversi altri eventi accompagneranno l'edizione di quest'anno.Anzitutto è prevista la messa in scena alla Galleria Toledo del monologo teatrale Cattivi Maestri di e con Paolo Oliveri del Castillo. Inoltre sarà possibile visitare l'installazione-spazio sonoro Phóleos Oneiros (“Caverna Sogno”) nelle Cantine del Monastero delle Trentatré. Due laboratori di letteratura saranno dedicati alla narrativa spagnola e a quella tedesca contemporanee.Infine la manifestazione sarà chiusa con due eventi del tutto straordinari che vedranno la presenza del pluripremiato scrittore bulgaro Georgi Gospodinov, vincitore, fra l'altro, del Premio Strega Europeo e dell'International Booker Prize. La mattina del 17 novembre Gospodinov terrà un laboratorio di scrittura creativa, per poi chiudere con un evento serale dal titolo Il sogno del tempo l'edizione 2024 di Strane coppie.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Reading Lolita in Teheran by Eran Riklis, premiering at Rome Film Fest brings on the big screen the freedom and power of the book by Azar Nafisi The post “Reading Lolita in Teheran”, interview with director Eran Riklis and Book author Azar Nafisi appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

Valentina Gasparet"pordenonelegge"Festa del libro e della libertàwww.pordenonelegge.itCon una riflessione di S.E. il Cardinale Gianfranco Ravasi sul tema “In principio: creazione ed ecologia”, un intervento concepito per il festival e focalizzato sul nostro tempo, si inaugura – domani, mercoledì 18 settembre, alle 18.30 al Teatro Verdi di Pordenone - la 25^ edizione di pordenonelegge, che festeggia quest'anno il suo primo quarto di secolo. L'urgenza di un vasto impegno per lo sviluppo sostenibile e l'analisi della condizione attuale del pianeta sono in rapporto con la ricerca sull'evoluzione umana e sulle vicende dell'universo, quindi con il tema della creazione e il concetto di generazione e rigenerazione. Lo sguardo sul nostro tempo e quello futuro sono filo rosso portante della Festa del libro, da quest'anno anche Festa della libertà: dal 18 al 22 settembre sono in arrivo oltre 600 autrici e autori italiani e internazionali, protagonisti di334 eventi in 43 sedi fra Pordenone e il Friuli Venezia Giulia, con 60 anteprime editoriali riservate al festival.La 25^ edizione di pordenonelegge, Festa del libro e della libertà, è promossa dalla Fondazione Pordenoneegge.it, presieduta da Michelangelo Agrusti, a cura di Gian Mario Villalta (direttore artistico), Alberto Garlini e Valentina Gasparet. Fra attualità e letteratura a pordenonelegge sono attese voci iconiche del nostro tempo, da Bernard-Henri Lévy ad Azar Nafisi e Richard Ford.«Pordenonelegge rinnova la sua vocazione a raccontare il mondo, restando sull'uscio della storia: nella consapevolezza – spiega il presidente di Fondazione Pordenonelegge.it Michelangelo Agrusti – che i libri sono sempre presidio di libertà». La guida completa del festival è scaricabile in formato stampabile sul sito www.pordenonelegge.it Pordenonelegge è una Festa della cultura accessibile, comunitaria e inclusiva. A cominciare dall'inaugurazione didomani, mercoledì 18 settembre (ore 18.30, Teatro Verdi di Pordenone) alla quale parteciperanno centinaia di studenti della città, rinnovando il “patto” della letteratura con le generazioni che rappresentano il nostro futuro, accanto a molti cittadini delle locali residenze per la terza età, e a una rappresentanza della comunità locale ghanese, nel contesto di un progetto finalizzato a fornire gli strumenti per l'ottimale integrazione.E ci saranno 25 studentesse e studenti del Liceo Bilingue Ustvani e dell'Università Karlova di Praga, accolti da una rappresentanza di studenti dell'ITS Alto Adriatico Academy di Pordenone. Inoltre il festival potrà contare sull'apporto del gruppo di ragazzi inseriti nel progetto Pordenone Pulita e Inclusiva, che saranno operativi negli spazi di piazza XX settembre e limitrofe, per garantire il decoro dell'area e per dare supporto agli espositori per la gestione della RD, per l'intera durata del Festival.La 25^ edizione del festival riserverà inoltre un'attenzione speciale alla popolazione carceraria attraverso gli eventi organizzati per i detenuti della Casa Circondariale di Pordenone: venerdì 20 settembre alle 15 Alessandro Bergonzoni racconterà la sua esperienza artistica, tra teatro e libri, e sabato 21 settembre alle 17 Massimo Cirri sarà protagonista di un ulteriore incontro con tanti aneddoti legati alla sua esperienza radiofonica. Attesissimo domani, subito dopo l'inaugurazione, l'avvio del progetto di Video Mapping, che dal tramonto alle ore notturne, per tutto il festival, animerà il centro storico di Pordenone con le suggestioni immersive delle grandi biblioteche del mondo, da New York a Washington, da Praga a Dublino e Roma. Sui palazzi del centro storico sfileranno le proiezioni di queste splendide biblioteche, un arredo urbano fortemente evocativo per passeggiare in una mirabolante selva di scaffali e pubblicazioni di ogni latitudine del mondo. IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

La photo de Michel Barnier est en Une de la Tribune Dimanche et du Journal du Dimanche. Costume sombre, se tenant droit, il déclare à la Tribune Dimanche « J'ai une grande liberté », ce que semble aussitôt démentir Marine Le Pen dans le même journal. « Ce gouvernement sera sous surveillance », annonce la patronne du Rassemblement national dans une longue interview. « Nous avons posé nos exigences », ajoute-t-elle, « et nous ne les changerons pas ».Le Journal du Dimanche, de son côté, a obtenu quelques déclarations de Michel Barnier, dans les heures qui ont suivi sa nomination. « Chaque citoyen est important », dit-il. Son slogan : « respecter les Français, faire respecter la France ». Rien de surprenant donc de la part de celui qui dit aborder sa mission « avec le calme des vieilles troupes », et qui assure « qu'il écoutera tout le monde ».Le nouveau Premier ministre fait la Une de l'actualité en France, mais pas pour Aujourd'hui en France Dimanche qui lui préfère Tony Estanguet, le président du comité d'organisation de Paris 2024, sacré « homme de l'été ». « Il va clore ce soir, au Stade de France, les plus folles semaines de sport que la France ait jamais connues et durant lesquelles tout lui a réussi ».  Pour un peu, Aujourd'hui en France Dimanche lui prédirait un avenir politique. « Ceux qui l'ont côtoyé », nous dit-on, « sont unanimes : ils le voient capable de faire tout, ou presque ».Charnier et famineMais pendant les folles semaines olympiques que la France a traversé, le monde a continué de tourner. Et il tourne plutôt mal, si l'on en croit la presse hebdomadaire. « Inondations, famine, épidémie de rougeole, pénurie de médicaments », énumère le Nouvel Obs, pour lequel « la pire crise humanitaire du monde ne sévit pas au Moyen-Orient ou en Ukraine, mais au Soudan ». « Khartoum la capitale a été rasée par la guerre, près de 15 000 soudanais ont été massacrés, et les charniers sont visibles sur les images satellites », précise Sara Daniel, grand reporter, qui ajoute : « plus de 10 millions de Soudanais ont fui leur foyer, la famine pourrait être plus meurtrière que celle qu'a connue l'Éthiopie dans les années 1980 ». Mais « malgré ce tableau apocalyptique, il y a peu de chances que la situation préoccupe à temps l'opinion publique internationale et ses diplomates », conclut le Nouvel Obs.Un mur de 50 kilomètresLe monde tourne mal et les exemples ne manquent pas. Paris Match s'est rendu à la frontière entre Haïti et la République dominicaine. « Scellée à sa voisine par la géographie, la République dominicaine rêve de larguer les amarres », explique l'hebdomadaire. « Se couper du pays le plus pauvre des Amériques, elle qui est la première destination touristique des Caraïbes. À l'ouest, la misère et la noirceur des gangs. À l'est, la croissance et la blancheur des plages ? », interroge Paris Match qui nous parle de ces « 170 kilomètres » de frontière que les autorités dominicaines rêvent de rendre « étanches ». Cela en construisant un mur, fait de béton et de grillage, et qui compte déjà « une cinquantaine de kilomètres ».Mais comme partout dans le monde, un mur ne suffit pas à décourager ceux qui fuient la misère ou la guerre.  Beaucoup d'Haïtiens tentent et parviennent à le franchir. Et ce n'est pas la seule épreuve qu'ils affrontent. Auparavant, ils doivent traverser une rivière, une étape dangereuse pour ces Haïtiens qui, pour la plupart, « ne savent pas nager », nous explique Paris Match. L'hebdomadaire publie la photo d'une famille qui sort de l'eau, un homme, deux femmes dont l'une est enceinte, et deux jeunes enfants dont un bébé. « Expulsée le matin même », précise l'hebdomadaire, cette famille tente de revenir en République dominicaine où elle a vécu trois ans ».  « Les femmes vont sauver l'Iran »Dernière étape pour cette revue de presse : l'Iran. « Les femmes vont sauver l'Iran », affirment, d'une même voix, l'actrice Zar Amir et l'écrivaine Azar Nafisi, dans le Nouvel Obs. Deux iraniennes qui vivent en exil. La première en France, la seconde aux États-Unis. Deux femmes qui expriment leurs espoirs, « deux ans après la mort de Mahsa Amini, et le mouvement Femmes, vie, liberté ». Pour Azar Nafisi, « les femmes iraniennes ont découvert leur pouvoir. Elles descendent dans la rue sans savoir si elles rentreront vivantes et couvrent le son des balles avec leurs chansons. Elles incarnent une autre forme de révolution, non violente. Si une seule mèche de cheveux peut leur valoir une centaine de coups de fouet, la torture ou une balle entre les yeux, c'est le signe même de leur puissance. Le régime les craint, il voit dans leurs corps un danger », assure Azar Nafisi.« Quel futur imaginez-vous pour l'Iran ? » demande le Nouvel Obs à Zar Amir. « Je suis très enthousiaste », répond-elle. « Une page s'est tournée et on ne reviendra pas en arrière, même si on doit le payer cher. Les femmes vont sauver l'Iran ».

Today our guest is writer Azar Nafisi. We'll talk about her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."

Eleonora Barbieri"Leggere pericolosamente"Azar NafisiAdelphi Edizioniwww.adelphi.itTraduzione di Anna Rusconi«Finché possiamo immaginare, siamo liberi» ha detto David Grossman. Ma – si potrebbe obiettare – non sarà un lusso riservato agli scrittori? In altre parole: la letteratura esercita un effettivo potere sulla nostra vita quotidiana? Le cinque lettere che fra il 2019 e il 2020 Azar Nafisi ha indirizzato al padre, proseguendo un dialogo che la morte di lui non ha interrotto, sono la più persuasiva risposta a questo cruciale interrogativo. Mentre intorno a lei, anche negli Stati Uniti, la realtà si fa sempre più allarmante – dall'affermarsi di tendenze totalitarie alla pandemia di Covid-19 – e indignazione e angoscia paiono sopraffarla, Azar Nafisi torna a immergersi nei libri che più ha amato, e ci mostra, intrecciando racconto autobiografico e riflessione sulla letteratura, come Salman Rushdie e Zora Neale Hurston, David Grossman e Margaret Atwood, e altri ancora, l'abbiano accompagnata nei momenti più difficili, come veri e propri talismani. E le abbiano dischiuso, con la loro multivocalità, inattese prospettive: insegnandole per esempio a dubitare della soffocante dicotomia tra aggressore e vittima; a vedere nell'odio e nella rabbia, in apparenza capaci di conferire identità, una fuga dal dolore – a comprendere che le grandi opere letterarie sono davvero pericolose, giacché smascherano ogni impulso tirannico, fuori e dentro di noi. Sicché leggerle pericolosamente significa accogliere l'irrequietezza e il desiderio di conoscenza di cui ci fanno dono.«È il lavoro del poeta ... nominare l'innominabile, additare le imposture, prendere posizione, avviare discussioni, plasmare il mondo e impedirgli di addormentarsi» (Salman Rushdie).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/il-posto-delle-parole--1487855/support.

Kate Wand is a content creator, video and podcast producer, and author of the Very Opinionated Kate Wand Substack. In this video, we sit down to discuss collectivism vs. individualism, how the former dominates our culture, politics, and education establishment right now, and how to deal with the fact that no one is coming to save you from any of it.Some recent samples of Kate's work that are relevant:Who Will Be The Leaders of Tomorrow? | Harry Wade & Kate Wand   • Who Will Be The Leaders of Tomorrow? ...  The Recent Scandal Breaking the Internet   • The Scandal BREAKING the internet  How the Left Poisoned Education with Phil Magness   • How the Left POISONED Education | Phi...  Kate's Reading List for Viewers:The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayekhttps://a.co/d/fgdHiUmMan's Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Franklhttps://a.co/d/32gt6kRReading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi https://a.co/d/5BRJ4HPFind Kate at:Website: very-opinionated.comPodcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sh...YouTube:    / katewand   Substack: katewand.substack.com Your support makes my work possible. If you appreciate this content, please consider supporting me in one of the following ways:Join The Reason We Learn Community @WOKESCREEN : https://wokescreen.com/thereasonwelearn/Join The Reason We Parent - Parent Support Group: https://wokescreen.com/the-reason-we-...Hire me for consulting, tutoring and public speaking: https://thereasonwelearn.com Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/trwlPayPal: paypal.me/deborahfillmanPurchase TRWL Merch: https://store.wokescreen.com/the-reas...Purchase books from Heroes of Liberty with my referral link and get 10% off!https://heroesofliberty.com/?ref=Zqpq...#education #philosophy #history #culture #indoctrination #hivemind #collectivism #individualism #objectivism #viktorfrankl #dei #racism #antisemitism--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/debf/support Get full access to The Reason We Learn at thereasonwelearn.substack.com/subscribe

Luciano Manicardi"La passione per l'umano"Vita e Pensierowww.vitaepensiero.itNasce dall'esperienza sul campo questo libro che esplora sentimenti e vissuti quotidiani in un percorso che parte da una serie di lezioni in ambito psicoanalitico, ma che sfocia in un origi­nale approccio interdisciplinare, seguendo il filo conduttore delle grandi, fondamentali domande della nostra esistenza: chi è l'uomo e che cos'è la condizione umana. L'autore, un biblista con formazione umanistica, non fa riferimento solo a studi di psicoterapeu­ti e psicoanalisti, ma attinge a piene mani alla grande letteratura, con romanzi come L'Avver­sario di Emmanuel Carrère, La vergogna di Annie Ernaux, La nausea di Sartre, i racconti di Čechov, Leggere Lolita a Teheran di Azar Nafisi, per citar­ne alcuni: «libri che ci svegliano, libri che ci fan­no bene facendoci male», come scrive l'autore. Ogni capitolo è dedicato a un tema: parola, narrazione, menzogna, invidia, vergogna, infi­ne volontà. In comune hanno la loro radicalità umana. L'enigma dell'invidia, una passione che non dà alcuna felicità: perché l'uomo la prova? E perché non riconosce mai di essere invidioso? Il mistero della vergogna, emozione dolorosa, eppure importante regolatore dei compor­tamenti umani. La quotidianità della parola, che può stravolgersi in aggressione, violenza, manipolazione: come fare in modo che diventi carezza e non pugno, ponte verso l'altro e non fossato incolmabile? E che dire della menzo­gna nell'epoca della post-verità e nell'imper­versare delle fake news? Un viaggio che inizia dalle storie narrate, ma a volte più vere del vero nella loro capacità di parlare delle con­traddizioni che abitano il cuore di donne e uomini, per arrivare a illuminare alcuni fonda­mentali dell'esperienza umana.Luciano Manicardi (1957), originario di Cam­pagnola Emilia (RE), laureato a Bologna, è un monaco, già priore della comunità monastica di Bose, e biblista. La sua riflessione, attenta all'intrecciarsi dei dati biblici con le acquisi­zioni più recenti dell'antropologia, riesce a far emergere dalla Scrittura lo spessore esistenziale e la sapienza di vita di cui è portatrice. Autore di numerose monografie tra cui, fra le ultime, Spiritualità e politica (2019), Fragilità (2020), Scrivere il perdono (2022), con Vita e Pensiero ha pubblicato Memoria del limite. La condizione umana nella società postmortale (2011).IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarewww.ilpostodelleparole.itQuesto show fa parte del network Spreaker Prime. Se sei interessato a fare pubblicità in questo podcast, contattaci su https://www.spreaker.com/show/1487855/advertisement

Ihr Buch "Lolita lesen in Teheran" war ein Weltbestseller. Darin erzählt die in Teheran geborene Azar Nafisi, wie sie als Professorin von der Universität verwiesen wurde, weil sie keinen Schleier im Unterricht tragen wollte. Sie wählte die Literatur als Mittel des Widerstands gegen das Regime – und gründete einen Lesekreis, in dem westliche Literatur gelesen wurde. Die Literaturagenten sprechen mit Azar Nafisi über ihr neues Buch "Lese gefährlich". Dazu ein Wirkungstreffer des diesjährigen Buchpreisträgers Tonio Schachinger und die Vorstellung des neuen Roman von Barbi Marković mit dem kuriosen Titel "Minihorror".

Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), talk about the jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. On Today's Show:Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), discuss Mohammadi's work, and the importance, and difficulties of speaking truth to power.

The jailed Iranian women's rights activist Narges Mohammadi, is this year's recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. On Today's Show:Summer Lopez, chief program officer of Free Expression Programs at PEN America and Azar Nafisi, author of many books including Reading Lolita in Tehran and most recently Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times (Dey Street Books, 2022), discuss Mohammadi's work, and the importance, and difficulties of speaking truth to power.

Our guest today symbolizes the power of literature which she captures in her internationally acclaimed memoir, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”. Through her powerful storytelling, she invites readers to embark on a journey to discover Iran beyond clichés. All her work explores themes of censorship, identity, struggle for individuality, shedding light on the experiences of women in Iran and their quest for freedom. In 1981, Nafisi was expelled from teaching at the University of Tehran for refusing to wear the Islamic veil and eventually left Iran for the US in 1997. She's been speaking to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Italy, where she was given an award.

So much of our modern life is built upon simplifying the complex. We reduce social interactions to likes and follows on social media and dilute the “news” in our favorite echo chambers. But Azar Nafisi warns that life is not simple, and the complexity found in great literature is ultimately liberating of the mind and essential to the health of our democracy. Nafisi is a best-selling author and professor. She was a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., from 1997 and 2017. She taught as professor of aesthetics, culture and literature there, as well as acting as Director of The Dialogue Project & Cultural Conversations. She released her nationally best-selling book “Reading Lolita in Tehran” in 2003, which went on the spend over 117 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. The book has been translated in 32 languages and won many awards such as the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Non-fiction Book of the Year Award by Booksense, the Latifeh Yarsheter Book Award, an achievement award from the American Immigration Law foundation and the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle. It has also been a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Memoir. Nafisi won a Persian Golden Lioness Award for literature in 2005, presented by the World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media. The Times named Reading Lolita in Tehran one of the “100 Best Books of the Decade,” in 2009. She has worked with both policy makers and human rights organizations to improve human rights for the women and girls of Iran. She was awarded the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation International Thought and Humanities Award in 2011 and was named a Georgetown University/Walsh School of Foreign Service Centennial Fellow in 2018. She has been awarded honorary doctorates from Susquehanna University (2019), Pomona College (2015), Mt. Holyoke College (2012), Seton Hill University (2010), Goucher College (2009), Bard College (2007), Rochester University (2005) and Nazareth College.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004. Nafisi says that reading can help us really live and also help us, and has helped her, survive challenging times. Nafisi told NPR's Scott Simon that literature's purpose is to let us experience new worlds: "to come out of yourself, and join the other."

Real Fiction re-airs a conversation with Azar Nafisi during Women's History Month. Her most recent book READING DANGEROUSLY: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. (With expanded content for the KXCV and podcast audience)

Azar Nafisi, The New York Times bestselling author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?

When Reading Lolita in Tehran was published 20 years ago, Azar Nafisi had only lived in the United States for six years. Since then, she has watched the subtle and not-so-subtle signs of totalitarianism take root in America. Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times is Nafisi's latest book. It's an epistolary piece written to her father about the writers who Nafisi believe inform what our country, and world, are facing. From Plato to Baldwin, Atwood to Coates, Nafisi draws parallels between the treatment of women in Iran and the treatment of African Americans in the U.S. Since its release last March, the book has grown only more relevant with the Dobbs decision, the attack on Rushdie, the rising protests in her home country of Iran. Nafisi joins Marrie Stone to talk about her decision to write this book. She discusses why governments are so threatened by writers, small acts everyday readers and writers can do, the responsibilities of the artist, how to avoid being didactic in fiction, the power of the epistolary structure and much more. Nafisi comes to the podcast from the Miami Book Fair. For more information, visit their website here. For more information on Writers on Writing and additional writing tips, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. (Recorded in October 2022)  Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettCo-Host: Marrie StoneMusic and sound design: Travis Barrett

How can reading a novel become an act of political rebellion? This is one of the important questions we take up with Azar Nafisi, author of the memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran. Azar's latest book is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. In it, she focuses on the parallels and connections between the totalitarian mindset in Iran and totalitarian tendencies in the United States. Azar notes that tyrants and writers in both countries seek to recreate reality, tyrants by telling us that the truth is what they say it is, and writers by excavating the actual truth. “In Iran, like all totalitarian states,” Azar says, “the regime pays too much attention to poets and writers, harassing, jailing, and even killing them. The problem in America is that too little attention is paid to them.” The solution? “Reading literature and philosophy will teach you to have an independent mindset,” Azar explains. “It teaches you to be generous towards others, to not live on hate. … One of the things that is fascinating to me about fiction is that by structure, it is democratic. … A novel is comprised of different characters from different backgrounds–gender, race, ethnicity, religion. … The plot moves forward through creating tensions within and between these characters. Even the villain, even the bad guy has a voice of his own. So fiction becomes dangerous. These two aspects of it are anti-totalitarian: its democratic structure and its search for truth.” Azar Nafisi is the author of the multi-award-winning New York Times bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran, as well as Things I've Been Silent About and The Republic of Imagination. Formerly a fellow at Johns Hopkins University's Foreign Policy Institute, she's taught at Oxford and several universities in Tehran, and she's currently Centennial Fellow at Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Azar's writing has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal. Find us on Twitter (@bookdreamspod) and Instagram (@bookdreamspodcast), or email us at contact@bookdreamspodcast.com. We encourage you to visit our website and sign up for our newsletter for information about our episodes, guests, and more. Book Dreams is a part of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to Book Dreams, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows about literature, writing, and storytelling like Storybound and The History of Literature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Azar Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Her newest book, Read Dangerously, argues that reading literature, reading challenging, dangerous literature is foundational and fundamental to continued democracy. Imagination, itself, she says, is a threat to autocracy and totalitarianism. Imagination is inherently, by definition, “free and wayward.” “It should be clear by now that when I talk about books,” Nafisi writes, “I am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.” Azar Nafisi joins us for the hour. GUEST: Azar Nafisi: The author of six books; her newest is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show, which originally aired April 7, 2022.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In our final summer episode, we bring you two voices of advocacy in an episode that will both stoke your passions and remind you to be gentle with yourself at the same time. Guests Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi both speak to why we must write our truths, pay attention, bear witness, and remember the power of one person's voice and words to save and change lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In our final summer episode, we bring you two voices of advocacy in an episode that will both stoke your passions and remind you to be gentle with yourself at the same time. Guests Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi both speak to why we must write our truths, pay attention, bear witness, and remember the power of one person's voice and words to save and change lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Rachael Tillman and I discuss Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran, a long overdue read for both of us.

Guest host Talia Schlanger is joined by Taylor Behn-Tsakoza, Brent Bisaillon and Hailey Rose to talk about the path forward following the Pope's trip to Canada, George Monbiot reimagines the future of food, and Azar Nafisi extolls the power of literature in troubled times.

In this episode from the Institute's Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher's impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt's birth. Samantha Power was Barack Obama's human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is a professor of practice at Harvard's Law School and Kennedy School. In the second half of the episode, Azar Nafisi responds to Power. Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In this episode from the Institute's Vault, Samantha Power describes how Hannah Arendt influenced her thinking about politics and human rights. Power spoke during a two day symposium-- “Hannah Arendt Right Now”--which explored the philosopher's impact on the 21st Century. The 2006 event was held on the hundredth anniversary of Arendt's birth. Samantha Power was Barack Obama's human rights adviser, and then served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations. She is the author of several books, including A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, which won the 2003 Pulitzer prize. She is a professor of practice at Harvard's Law School and Kennedy School. In the second half of the episode, Azar Nafisi responds to Power. Nafisi is best known for her 2003 book, Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Azar Nafisi offers you - a reader - a challenge. It is the title of her latest book - “Read Dangerously”. Azar comes with a unique perspective. She was teaching in Iran when the clerics took over, banned books, and eliminated many of the freedoms that Americans often take for granted. She caused something of a sensation when she wrote “Reading Lolita in Tehran” - contending that reading fiction can be a liberating and even subversive act. Now she teaches in the United States and worries that Americans aren't reading enough - specifically aren't reading works that take them outside their comfort zone. What freedoms could we lost if we don't "Read Dangerously"? Her argument is an important one and very much worth a listen. 

This week's episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what's at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that's political and urgent and necessary—and if you're not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading list a subversive one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week's episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what's at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that's political and urgent and necessary—and if you're not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading list a subversive one.

This week's episode inspires and challenges and encourages all of us to embrace the magic of subversive reading. This conversation with Azar Nafisi, the best-selling author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, about her new book, Read Dangerously, is a reminder of what's at stake for us right now in the US, why we need to engage and not check out, or worse, employ the same tactics as extremists in the fight for democracy. Tune in for an episode that's political and urgent and necessary—and if you're not reading dangerously, make the next book on your reading list a subversive one.

Tess Newton-Cain discusses the latest news from the Pacific, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili explores China-Taliban relations and what is happening in the region since the US pulled out and Azar Nafisi on the power of 'reading dangerously'.

This week, our guest is author and academic Azar Nafisi. Her books include Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About. Nafisi was born in Iran, and first came to the United States to study in the 1970s. After earning her Ph.D., she returned to her home country to teach at the University of Tehran, where in 1981, she was expelled for refusing to wear the mandatory Islamic veil. Nafisi went back to teaching six years later, with a series of lectures that examined the role of Western literature and culture in Iran after the 1979 revolution. She returned to the United States in 1997 to advocate on behalf of Iran's intellectuals, youth, and especially young women. Her new book Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times examines some of the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin, and more. On March 31, 2022, Azar Nafisi talked to Steven Winn at the studios of KQED in San Francisco.

Azar Nafisi is the author of Reading Lolita in Tehran, which spent 117 weeks on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Her new book, Read Dangerously, argues that reading literature, reading challenging, dangerousliterature is foundational and fundamental to continued democracy. Imagination, itself, she says, is a threat to autocracy and totalitarianism. Imagination is inherently, by definition, “free and wayward.” “It should be clear by now that when I talk about books,” Nafisi writes, “I am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.” Azar Nafisi joins us for the hour. GUEST: Azar Nafisi: The author of six books; her newest is Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times The Colin McEnroe Show is available as a podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you get your podcasts. Subscribe and never miss an episode! Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter. Colin McEnroe and Cat Pastor contributed to this show.Support the show: http://www.wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Azar Nafisi, The New York Times bestselling author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" returns with a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times, arming readers with a resistance reading list, ranging from James Baldwin to Zora Neale Hurston to Margaret Atwood. How can literature, through its free exchange, affect politics?

Azar and I discuss Read Dangerously, how she selected the authors to include in this book, the reemergence of book banning, coming up with the format she used for the book, how curiosity leads to empathy, the importance of fiction in our lives, and much more. Azar's recommended reads are: The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak Maus by Art Spiegelman Nicky & Vera by Peter Sis One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Support the podcast by becoming a Page Turner on Patreon.  Other ways to support the podcast can be found here.     If you enjoyed this episode and want to listen to more episodes, try Julie Metz, Adam Stern, Ly Tran, Cate Doty, or Ty Seidule.  Read Dangerously can be purchased at my Bookshop storefront.       Connect with me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us, when NYT Bestselling author Azar Nafisi explores the role of literature in an era when politics can greatly influence writers and the press. Drawing on her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor in both countries, Azar has written a guide to the power of literature in turbulent times. In her book READ DANGEROUSLY, Nafisi crafts an argument for why, in a genuine democracy, we must engage with the enemy, and how literature can be a vehicle for doing so, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM.

Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times. She does this in a series of letters to her late father who passed on in 2004. Nafisi says that reading can help us really live and also help us, and has helped her, survive challenging times. Nafisi told NPR's Scott Simon that literature's purpose is to let us experience new worlds: "to come out of yourself, and join the other."

Writer Azar Nafisi says totalitarian regimes pay “too much attention to poets and writers, harassing, jailing and even killing them,” but in America the problem is too little attention, silencing them through “indifference and negligence.” Nafisi's new book, “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times,” is written as a series of letters to her late father discussing the writers she turns to when grappling with oppression and injustice, including Salman Rushdie, Plato, Zora Neale Hurston, Ray Bradbury and Margaret Atwood. “I am not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance,” she writes, the ways “literature and art resist seats of power – not only that of kings and tyrants, but the tyrant within us as well.”

Democracy is integral to America's story, but recent book banning efforts from across the country may be a red flag. Author and English literature professor Azar Nafisi joins the podcast to talk about the power of fiction to challenge tyranny and preserve democracy. As a witness to the Iranian Revolution firsthand, Azar has explored the subversive power of literature in her bestselling book Reading Lolita in Tehran. On the pod, Azar talks about her new book Read Dangerously, which draws from her experiences as a woman and voracious reader living in the Islamic Republic of Iran, her life as an immigrant in the United States, and her role as literature professor.

With book banning on the rise, author Azar Nafisi's timely new book reminds us of the power of fiction to challenge tyranny, fight injustice and open minds.